Midnight Stories fiction 25 And then what happened was

And then what happened was that she became a wild-pregnant-mammal-thing and then she exploded herself by having a whole baby blast through her vagina during a global plague and then she was expected to carry on like everything was normal-but was this normal

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Midnight Stories fiction 25 And then what happened wasA raw deal can leave you dead in the water *The life of a country bumpkin is worth no more than a melon? The boat dwellers upriver have been punting watermelons down to the market by Tiexing bridge for as long as the townsfolk can remember. A precarious relationship at the best of times, things quickly turn sour when a peddler turns up dead, prompting a pitched battle between fruit vendors and their urban clients. In the uneasy peace that follows, a